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Holistic Center Montemor o Novo, Portugal
Retreat Center looking 4 a Sister to Cook for Individual Retreats
What you offer
25h
- Hours per week
- Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.
- Cooking
- Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
What you get
2
- Days off per week
- Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.
- Shared Dorm
- You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
- Breakfast
- You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
- Lunch
- You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
- Dinner
- You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
- Use our equipped kitchen
- Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
- Free Laundry
- You can use our laundry room freely.
- Free Tours
- We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
- Free Hiking Tours
- We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
- Yoga classes
- Take free yoga classes at our place.
- Holistic Therapies
- You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
- Bikes at your disposal
- You can use our bikes any time you want.
- Pick Up
- We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
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Availability
May
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- Stay at least
- 2 weeks
- Stay up to
- 8 weeks
The Experience
We are a Retreat Center located in alentejo forest, only one hour from Lisbon and Setúbal beautifull beaches. We look for a sister that can helps us cooking healthy and vegetarian food for individual Yoga and Silent Retreats. Perhaps will be needed some suport feeding animals (horse, chickens, cat and sheeps. Gardening we dos sometimes as well. If you have Yoga skills as a teacher, perfect, if not, good mood and fairy hands its enough.
Learn moreRequirements
- Intermediate English or Intermediate Portuguese
- Between 18 and 37 years old
- Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
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7 Reviews
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Hours & Tasks
Holistic Center
Learning & Fun
How this experience will transform you
- 4 Get in touch with nature
- 4 Practicing English
- 3 Learning about sustainability
- 2 Developing environmental awareness
- 2 Meeting international travelers
- 1 Immersing in the local culture
This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals
- 1 3. Good health and well-being
- 1 4. Quality education
ANGELIKA
Czech Republic
It was our first Worldpackers experience and we thouroughly enjoyed it. During our stay, there weren't any retreats so we mostly helped around (gardening, working on project - a spiral, cooking for them - they cooked sometimes as well though:), feeding animals and other). Pedro and Mafalda were welcoming and very kind and fun). We felt appreciated and loved🍀🌱🦋💙
9 months ago
PENELOPE
Italy
This was my first worldpackers experience and I couldn't have asked for more. the Center it's a magical place, perfect if you are looking for relax lots of yoga and a healthy life style. The tasks are really easy , form gardening to cooking to just help around where it's needed. The owners , Mafalda and Pedro, made me feel welcomed and comfortable since the first day and they are great company .
10 months ago
Quinta replied
Penélope is a wonderfull person! Very happy , active, always ready to help , creative, very social and with a good sense of humor. She is also very mature for her age. We are missing her already and we hope that she comes back soon.
She cooks amazing!!!! Exotic style 😋
Ayaka
Germany
The Center is a beautiful place to stay, staying there I felt very connected with nature and mindful. I enjoyed the Yoga practices so much and the work was really relaxed, too. I think its important to know that when there are no guests, you work mostly in the garden and around the house. For me it was perfect though, I definitely recommend staying there!! Thank you so much Mafalda and Pedro🙏🥰
11 months ago
Quinta replied
Ayaka is a beautifull person, very good heart, honest , always ready to help and very mature for her age.
She is peacefull and lovely.
I hope she comes back.
Abigail
Spain
This was my first Worldpackers experience. I am very grateful for the time spent in the Center. Pedro and Mafalda are great hosts, they will make you feel like family. The hours worked were respected, and I could join all the yoga classes. The place itself is beautiful, if you like being surrounded only by nature. Note that you will depend on them if you don't have a car to go see other places, but they are very flexible and sometimes include you in other plans. Therefore, the communication was excellent. I will come back soon.
12 months ago
Quinta replied
Abigail is a super sweet girl, pro active, always ready to help. She is adventures and funny.
We hope she comes back.
Philine
Germany
It was an interesting and exhausting experience. The first few days we were on our own as volunteers, not knowing how to feed the animals. even though Mafalda has to deal with a very difficult situation, we were still very neglected and had to deal with it. There are only compost toilets and in the time we were there there was no yoga retreat. that's why we didn't cook but only worked in the garden. Communication was bad and everything was always very spontaneous. Also the retreat ist located in the middle of nowhere and without a car it is difficult to explore the city.
6 months ago
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